Power Platform Fundamentals

Course Description

If you’re a student, business user, or beginning technical professional, this certification can accelerate your progress and give your career a boost, as you use your Microsoft Power Platform skills to improve your team’s productivity. No experience is necessary to train for it—just basic familiarity with computer technology, data analytics, cloud computing, and the internet. Think of a fundamentals’ certification as the first step in growing your skill set and advancing to other certifications, such as Microsoft Power Platform Functional Consultant.

The Microsoft Power Platform Fundamentals certification could be a great fit for you, if you’d like to:

• Build solutions with Microsoft Power Platform.
• Automate basic business processes with Power Automate.
• Perform data analysis with Power BI.
• Create simple Power Apps experiences.
• Build practical chatbots with Power Virtual Agents.

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Microsoft Certified: Power Platform Fundamentals

Objectives

Skills measured:

• Describe the business value of Power Platform
• Identify the core components of Power Platform
• Demonstrate the capabilities of Power BI
• Describe the capabilities of Power Apps
• Demonstrate the capabilities of Power Automate
• Demonstrate the business value of Power Virtual Agents

Target Audience

• Candidates for this exam are users who aspire to improve productivity by automating business processes, analyzing data to produce business insights, and acting more effectively by creating simple app experiences.
  

Prerequisites

This certification has no prerequisites. However, if you’d like to gain some more experience, you could:

• Shadow a person on your team who works with Microsoft Power Platform.
• Sign up for an instructor-led training course.

Duration

• 1 Day

Course Outline  

Module 1: Introduction to Power Platform

Learn about the components of Power Platform, ways to connect data, and how organizations can leverage this technology.

Lessons

• Power Platform Overview
• Module Summary

After completing this module, students will be able to:

• Identify when to use each Power Platform component application to create business solutions
• Learn the value of using Power Platform to create business solutions
• Learn the components and features of Power Platform

Module 2: Get Started with Power Apps

Learn about the value and capabilities of PowerApps, and ways other organizations have leveraged this technology to build simple applications for their business.

Lessons

·   Power Apps Overview

·   How to Build an App Solution

·   Create Staff Canvas App

·   Complete the App

Lab : How to Build a Basic Canvas App 2

·   Create Security Canvas App

After completing this module, students will be able to:

·   Learn how other organizations digitize their processes using Power Apps

·   See Power Apps in action and learn options for making your first app

·   Learn about what Power Apps is and its business value

Module 3: Introduction to Common Data Service

The Common Data Service allows you to delve into powerful, scalable data solutions in the cloud. Learn what makes the Common Data Service tick and how it can work with the Power Platform to create unique and efficient business solutions.

Lessons

·   Common Data Service Overview

·   Module Summary

Lab : Data Modeling

·   Create Environment and Solution

·   Create Entities and Relationships

·   Import Data

After completing this module, students will be able to:

·   Descibe the difference between Common Data Service and Common Data Model

Explain use cases and limitations of business rules and process flows

Explain what environments, entities, fields, and relationships are in common data service

Module 4: Get Started with Power Automate

Learn how users can leverage Power Automate to improve business efficiency and productivity.

Lessons

·   Power Automate Overview

·   How to Build an Automated Solution

Lab : Build a Simple Flow

·   Create Visit Notification Flow

·   Create Security Sweep Flow

After completing this module, students will be able to:

·   See how Power Automate works and looks from the user's perspective

·   Build a simple flow

·   Learn the business value and features of Power Automate

Module 5: Get Started with Power BI

Learn how organizations can use Power BI to easily clean, display, and understand data to ensure better informed decisions.

Lessons

·   Power BI Overview

·   How to Build a Simple Dashboard

Lab : Build a Power BI Report

After completing this module, students will be able to:

·   See how Power BI works and looks from the user's perspective

·   Learn how to build a simple Power BI dashboard·   Describe the business value and features of Power BI